# Experimental Lecture

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{{short description|English pornographic book published in 1878}}
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'''''Experimental Lecture''''' is an English [pornographic](/source/pornography) book privately printed and published in 1878-1879 by the [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym) "Colonel Spanker" with a false date of 1836.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ashbee |first=Henry Spencer |url=http://archive.org/details/indexlibrorumpro03ashb |title=Catena Librorum Tacendorum |date=1885 |publisher=Privately printed |location=London |others=Internet Archive |pages=246}}</ref>The Colonel and his circle have a house in [Park Lane](/source/Park_Lane_(road)) where [genteel](/source/genteel) young ladies are [kidnapped](/source/Kidnapping), [humiliated](/source/humiliated), and [flagellated](/source/flagellated).<ref name="fraxi">{{cite book |last=Ashbee |first=Henry Spencer |title=Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books |publisher=privately printed |year=1877 |place=London |pages=246–251 |authorlink=Pisanus Fraxi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Evergreen review | volume=98 | editor1-first=Barney | editor1-last=Rosset | editor2-first=Fred | editor2-last=Jordan | publisher=Grove Press | year=1984 | isbn=0-394-62001-1 | page=117 }}</ref> Pisanus Fraxi (alias of [Henry Spencer Ashbee](/source/Henry_Spencer_Ashbee)) claims the book is "from the pen of its publisher," which is widely believed to be William Lazenby.<ref name=":0" />

Fraxi describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent";<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ashbee |first=Henry Spencer |url=http://archive.org/details/indexlibrorumpro03ashb |title=Catena Librorum Tacendorum |publisher=Privately printed |location=London |others=Internet Archive |year=1885 |pages=250}}</ref> Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic";<ref>{{cite book | title=Sexual life in England, past and present | first=Iwan | last=Bloch | authorlink=Iwan Bloch | publisher=F. Aldor | year=1938 | pages=360, 450 }}</ref>  Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.<ref>{{cite book | title=Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment | editor1-first=George Sebastian | editor1-last=Rousseau | editor2-first=Roy | editor2-last=Porter | author=Anthony E. Simpson | chapter=Vulnerability and the age of female consent: legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape in eighteenth-century London | publisher=Manchester University Press | year=1987 | isbn=0-7190-1961-3 | page=199 }}</ref>

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Category:1878 books
Category:Pornography in the United Kingdom
Category:BDSM literature
Category:Books about flagellation
Category:Humiliation

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